From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Li-Ta Lo <ollie@lanl.gov>
Cc: yhlu <yinghailu@gmail.com>,
"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>,
Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, LinuxBIOS <linuxbios@openbios.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [LinuxBIOS] NUMA support for dual core Opteron
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:48:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714184821.GJ23619@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121365786.3317.6.camel@logarithm.lanl.gov>
> AFIAK, for x86_64 kernel, it will try to read NUMA configuration from
> HW directory. We don't have to export any ACPI table.
It doesn't work for dual core or 8 sockets for some reason. Since the SRAT
code works fine and is in general more future proof we never tracked down
why. Patches welcome.
However you'll likely need ACPI for other reasons anyways, e.g. for
better power saving.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-14 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-14 17:58 yhlu
2005-07-14 18:29 ` [LinuxBIOS] " Li-Ta Lo
2005-07-14 18:48 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-07-14 18:58 ` [discuss] " yhlu
2005-07-14 19:04 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-14 19:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-14 18:48 ` yhlu
2005-07-14 18:52 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-07-14 19:00 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-14 19:09 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 2:46 ` yhlu
2005-07-15 3:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 3:52 ` yhlu
2005-07-15 4:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 4:14 ` yhlu
2005-07-15 14:37 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-15 18:15 ` Tom Vier
2005-07-15 18:20 ` Andi Kleen
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